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by tptacek 4724 days ago
This is a great post, in which the lead security person at Etsy built a system to determine which HTTPS/TLS CA's actually got used in traffic from their office to the Internet. Less than 29% of the CAs their browser trusted actually saw any use!

This sounds like something to be outraged about but is actually constructive good news: if more people repeat the experiment, someone could invest some engineering time into building a tool that would prune out CAs from browser trust stores. Every CA removed from your browser is one less attack vector.

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Sounds like a job for the SSL Observatory? https://www.eff.org/observatory